Cawthorne's Endowed School is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. School. 3 related planning applications.

Cawthorne's Endowed School

WRENN ID
sombre-cellar-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 February 1986
Type
School
Address
Cawthorne's Endowed School, Abbeystead, Over Wyresdale, LA2 9BQ
OS grid reference
SD 561 543
Coordinates
53.98299, -2.67043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Cawthorne's Endowed School is a late 19th-century school building, possibly designed by Douglas. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The building is single storey and has two projections on the south side; the right-hand projection has a gabled roof while the left-hand projection is smaller with a hipped roof. The windows have elliptical heads, and to the right of the right-hand projection is a large eight-light window with mullions and a transom, while a similar window is located to the left. The front wall includes two two-light mullioned windows, and the left-hand projection has one two-light mullioned window. There is a door with a chamfered surround in the right-hand return wall of the left projection, and the right-hand projection features similar doorways in both return walls. The main building has a stone bellcote on the right-hand gable and a chimney with twin octagonal shafts on the left-hand gable. The left (west) gable wall displays a stepped eight-light mullioned and transomed window, with pointed heads on the upper lights.

Local climate

Cawthorne's Endowed School sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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